Not that anyone seems to care from the district, but hey, I've done my part.
We had a really great year. We changed a lot of things up, tossed some resources, added new ones, tweaked and twerked our sources, all the while learning and progressing. While our state's home education laws require us to show "progress" to our evaluators, we have always been able to show not only progress from the start of the year, but mastery of content in addition to students who continue to work above level and score highly on standardized testing (required in years 3, 5, and 8, but we test every year).
But I don't need to bore you with the curriculum choices and extras; there's enough on the interweb to satisfy your googling on that stuff. Here's some pics from our spectacular 3rd year of homeschooling!
We began our school year when this thing looked like this
Our mandatory sign-holding photo
Supposedly recreating a battle between Sparta and Athens
Raising ladybugs
RJ's sentence book, using the Dolch pre-primer sight words
We hosted a Seed Planting Meetup in March.
My kid-made coffee cup goes everywhere I go.
Cloud dough makes a winter habitat.
RJ plays games on www.funbrainjr.com, with breaks watching Dinosaur Train on www.pbskids.org
Train Conductor Buddy with Great Wolf Lodge Ears does 10 Frame Math
Riley works on states and capitals
They float their folded paper boats in the bathtub
Chase uses marker dots to recreate a Roman mosaic sign
Indy works on hers (I remembered to take pictures of big kids!)
The Homeschool version of the Summer Reading Program Ceremony, Gold Medals for all 3
Weights and estimation at the grocery store
Creating a Dinosaur habitat and sorting carnivores and herbivores
Ocean habitat, with pumping water that he will pump forever
Earned app time on RailMaze
Stone mosaics and a Gingerbread Train Kit that has been sitting in our pantry for way too long
Roman mosaics out of colorful beans
Dad finally got the old player piano working! Very neat mechanics on this piano from 1923, not to be confused with our very neat piano from 1894
Warm weather means hikes and nature walks
Studying at Valley Forge
Bugs!
Science, physics and the creek at a local nature center
We can even learn about our own snake, Ramona
Chase does math undistracted
Indigo, I mean Sapphire Sam, has some lines in her very first drama performance
Riley, I mean Mara, has a few lines in her very first drama performance
And when we ended the school year, this thing looked like this
Year end photo!
